kelsey

{Need some humor?}

2012-01-25T16:51:00.000-08:00

{Matt Costa}

2012-01-22T13:30:00.000-08:00

Matt Costa came to BYU (I'm still not sure why. Someone must have a connection) and we went to his concert last night! So fun!

It was just him playing his guitar and sometimes the harmonica, and we loved every minute of it. And here is my favorite Matt Costa song. It was seriously great.

(And we got free demo cds of a band called Bradey Parks and the Indianns. Love.)

{Occupy}

2011-12-14T09:55:00.000-08:00

I'm coming home tomorrow though, so everything is fine :)

{Operation Go-on-Campus}

2011-12-10T10:03:00.000-08:00

Remember when I had a crazy roommate who ate toilet paper? We went through a roll of toilet paper in a day and a half on average, just the two of us. Well this semester my roommates and I re-instituted Operation Go on Campus. Folks, this really works. We bought a big thing of tp (30 rolls) at Sam's Club on Saturday, August 27. Today is Saturday, December 10 and we still have 8 rolls to use before we've gone through the whole thing. 22 rolls in 16 weeks. Holla!

{Holla!}

2011-11-14T12:29:00.000-08:00

SO EXCITED!!

{I'm a sickie}

2011-11-07T16:22:00.000-08:00

{Snow Day}

2011-11-05T13:23:00.000-07:00

It's a snowy, stay-in-your-house-in-your-bed-with-your-electric-blanket-cranked-up kind of day. I'm hibernating and doing homework, but since it is practically Christmas out there here's a video to get you in the mood. And it's the Biebs. Can't get much better than that.

[PS- How cute is his deep voice?!]

{Nope}

2011-10-25T12:45:00.000-07:00

it's been a while since I blessed you with a funny youtube video. You're welcome.

{Attractive}

2011-10-22T17:52:00.000-07:00

Today was game day. I love BYU football, and the weather was supposed to be perfect. Don't ask me how it felt so freaking hot even though it was only 65*. We all got super attractive sunburns, mine definitely being the most obvious. Lovely, isn't it? BYU football is always worth it.

{Corn maze}

2011-10-18T12:34:00.000-07:00

So my birthday was on Tuesday and Hannah's birthday was on Saturday. We had a joint birthday party at Cornbelly's corn maze at Thanksgiving Point. They have this thing right now called "Insanity Point." It's basically all the haunted stuff. It was pretty freaky, and I loved every minute of it.

[Laura, Kate, Hannah, me and Brett. The rest of our group was elsewhere]

[Hayride]

[The girls]

[The Birthday Girls :)]

{Birthday}

2011-10-18T10:26:00.000-07:00

I turned 21 this last week. Yep, I'm legal. It was a great day, full of lots of Facebook messages, texts, class, work, and homework. The next morning I had clinical at 5am so it was an early night for me, hence the jammie jams. My great roommates remembered from long ago that Marie Calendar's Chocolate Satin pie is my fave and what I got every year on my birthday at home, and they surprised me with one. It tasted like my birthday :)

{GC}

2011-10-18T09:23:00.000-07:00

My roommates and I went to the General Relief Society Broadcast a few weeks back. It was a great meeting. Being able to go to that and General Conference the next week is one of the great things about going to BYU. Anywho... here are some cute pictures.

[Kate, me, Hannah, Holly, Laura]

[I have a wispy mustache.]

{Football}

2011-10-17T22:20:00.001-07:00

Football games are my faves. Except for one (and I still don't want to talk about that one...) the home games have been great. I lose my voice for a couple hours from screaming so much, but it's always worth it. Also, it's getting colder. You can tell by the progression of the pictures. Short-sleeve shirt... hoodie... coat and scarf. Bummer.

[Hannah, me, Kate]

[Morgan and Taylor (Kate's friends from home), Kate, me, Holly, Hannah]

[Holly, Kate, me]

{Zinger}

2011-09-20T12:54:00.001-07:00

{A tale of earthquakes, glass, and babies}

2011-09-10T10:43:00.000-07:00

This morning at the buttcrack of dawn (actually, it was still completely dark out. It was pre-buttcrack) my roommates and I volunteered at the "Shake Out, Take Out" emergency drill at the local hospital. Here's the scenario: at 2am this morning there was an earthquake in Utah County. Mount Timp hospital collapsed two hours later and everyone from that hospital had to be moved to one that wasn't as effected. All the hospitals also had to take in people who were hurt in the disaster. Tiffany was an 18 year old male from UVU with a compound fracture in her leg. Laura was a 32 year old man who had a bump on his head and a laceration on his forearm and was worried about his missing wife. I was a 34 year old woman, was in a car accident and had glass in my arm and a bruised face. I was also 28 weeks pregnant and was in active labor. Basically the only reason we did it was to get moulaged. Loved it.

Tiff's compound fracture.

Laura's bump on the head and forearm laceration.

In the hospital parking lot. Strangely enough, all the fields around the hospital were busy with soccer and ultimate frisbee. We got some strange looks as we were helping Tiffany hobble to the emergency room.

Luckily, I'm white enough that it really blended in and looked pretty legit.

Pretty wicked bruise!

So as it turns out, the nurses in Labor and Delivery stopped my labor, but I'm still being monitored. The doctors in the ER got the glass out, did an x-ray to make sure there wasn't any glass left in me, and cauterized my artery and sewed up my arm. They couldn't do much about my head (no CT scan because I was pregnant) so it's still being monitored too. Tiffany is still in emergency surgery, and Laura found her wife. Life is good!

{You asked, I delivered}

2011-09-08T19:58:00.000-07:00

You all have been begging me to blog for three weeks now. You might be getting more than you bargained for. Below is a rather huge picture of my foot. I made it that huge so you can better see my GIGANTIC blister. I doesn't hurt, but it is super uncomfortable. Apparently this happens every year. Remember this post? The thing about this blister is that it came after wearing sandals that I have worn everyday for the last 4 months. What the what?

{Camping Fools}

2011-09-08T08:50:00.000-07:00

Once upon a time, we went camping. It was just over night up Provo Canyon, but it sure was a fun trip. We played lots of scum (as seen below), roasted hot dogs for dinner and marshmallows for dessert (new favorite s'more- keebler fudge stripes instead of the graham cracker and chocolate. mmmm), roasted starbursts so they are soft and warm, and basically ate everything bad for you. These three pictures were the only pictures of the whole trip...

Kate and me

Holly's sister and Holly

Hannah (she was poop scum, hence the sad face)

Sleeping was kind of a different story. First of all, we were quite literally right next to the highway, so we heard giant semis rumble by all night long. It was freezing cold. Six of us were squished into a tiny tent. Kate, Hannah and I couldn't extend our legs all the way. (Holly could. She's short.) Hannah accidentally slept with her feet outside of the tent most of the night. I was sleeping on a rock or stump us something. Needless to say, no one got much sleep, and it was a really long night. Anywho, just be impressed that we went. haha

{Happy Birthday Mama!}

2011-08-18T17:09:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday to the world's best mama! Hope you're having a great time in Washington, but we miss you down here. LOVE YOU!!!

{Eegee's}

2011-06-29T17:43:00.000-07:00

I have been wanting... nay, craving... Eegee's for months. The strawberry eegee's, the kid's turkey sandwich, the ranch fries... mmmmmm. After being home for over two weeks, it finally happened today and it did not disappoint. One thing did disappoint actually... the kid's spelling capabilities. Poor thing probably never graduated High School. It was good for a laugh though :)

{Happy Father's Day}

2011-06-19T20:46:00.000-07:00

Dad, I love you!!

{TP}

2011-06-01T18:40:00.000-07:00

I share a bathroom with one person. One. And she uses more toilet paper than anyone else in the world. Not joking. Case in point...

The roll on the top is a new roll, the roll on the bottom was put on at 6pm Monday night. I took this picture at 10pm Tuesday night. I got to thinking, maybe it was just a bad day, maybe she had some IBS or something.

This picture was taken tonight at 7pm. What the what?!

Hannah and I have been brainstorming things said roommate could be doing with the toilet paper. The list includes stuffing her bra (that one is pretty far fetched. If you knew her, you would understand), making toilet paper dolls and keeping her collection in her room (we are never allowed to even look in her room), and the latest guess- eating toilet paper (Hannah watched a show on TLC on weird, compulsive disorders and apparently this kind of thing happens quite often).

I officially have 17 days left living with my crazy, toilet-paper eating, food-stealing, pots-and-pans-hiding roommate. Wish me luck.

{To appease the mom}

2011-05-30T14:08:00.000-07:00

Mom has been on my case. She said if I don't blog by 6pm tonight she would... well actually she didn't say what she would do. Just another empty threat, I guess. Anyway, I have nothing to blog. You all get mad when I don't blog pictures, but I haven't taken a picture in a while. So I will leave you with this... while you are all complaining how it's "just 80* and a bit to chilly to go swimming," keep in mind it is 49* and raining here. Cool.

But I do have a new Youtube video for you. How neat is that? That's pretty neat.

{The perfect part-time job}

2011-05-23T14:16:00.000-07:00

I've been perusing Craigslist looking for a part-time job in Tucson this summer. I think I finally found a winner. I can earn thousands while helping people. It's a win-win! [Except that there would be a little baby Kelsey running around somewhere. Awkward]

The desk is a replica of Uday Hussein's desk. I saw a picture in Newsweek.

2011-05-19T13:35:00.000-07:00

That was my favorite line from The Office last week! Anywho...
Welcome to my new office! I moved from the Richards Building to the Tanner Building closer to Paula :) Don't get too excited though... it's just a "temporary" solution.

Normally it has a really pretty view of Mt. Timpanogos, but it hasn't really stopped raining for the last 4 days. It also hasn't gotten above 50 degrees. It's not like it's spring or anything...

And I get to look out over my favorite dorm. Tender.

I Have a Crush

2011-05-09T18:33:00.000-07:00

I admit it. I have Bieber Fever. Some people (Kendle mostly...) are trying to make me feel embarrassed about it. Well, it's not going to work. If I was embarrassed about it would I have gone to see Never Say Never two nights in a row at the dollar theater. Nope.How can you not love him? He's just so cute!

My Momma's the BEST

2011-05-08T15:46:00.000-07:00

"Look to your mother. Learn from her strengths, her courage, and her faithfulness. Listen to her. She may not be a whiz at texting; she may not even have a Facebook page. But when it comes to matters of the heart and the things of the Lord, she has a wealth of knowledge. As you approach the time for marriage and young motherhood, she will be your greatest source of wisdom. No other person on earth loves you in the same way or is willing to sacrifice as much to encourage you and help you find happiness—in this life and forever."

-Elder M. Russel Ballard, Mothers and Daughters

Momma, I love you! You're the best mother in the world! You are funny, kind, caring, helpful, beautiful, faithful, clever, intelligent, strong, dependable, and so much more. Happy Mother's Day!!

Best Of

2011-04-15T09:33:00.000-07:00

I know you have all been waiting for this. I feel ya. I've been waiting all semester. I might have only blogged the Police Beat once... if that. But fear not, the Daily Universe just published the Best Of Winter Semester and they are pretty great. I'm posting them all so you can get the full effect. Enjoy :) [I particularly enjoy Suspicious Activity: January 17th and March 2nd, Disorderly Conduct: March 4th, Property Damage: January 14th, and Traffic Violation: January 19th. Oh heck, I like them all!]

Theft
March 10: A student reported his car stolen after he could not find it in the BYU parking terrace. The car was later located in the terrace, one level lower than the owner remembered parking.

Suspicious Activity
Jan. 17: A student reported a male with orange hair and an orange beard looking suspicious in the Smith Fieldhouse. The student told police he had overheard the man telling a woman that he liked babies. When officers arrived, no one saw a man with orange hair or an orange beard.

Jan. 20: Officers received reports of students climbing trees in front of the McKay Building. When officers responded, the students told police they had not been climbing the trees, but had just been looking up in them for a geocache. The geocache was located while police were present.

Jan. 29: After the Widtsoe Building was locked, someone saw people in the building and called police. Upon arrival, the officers discovered it was students who had been playing hide and seek before the building had closed. The students were told to leave the building.

March 2: Officers received a report of a van with fogged windows and seats removed from the vehicle. The caller suspected lewd acts were being committed in the van. Upon arrival, the officers discovered 10 fully-clothed individuals watching a movie.

March 24: The police received a report of someone sitting naked on the cougar statue outside the football stadium. The subject was gone upon police arrival.

Disorderly Conduct
Jan. 24: A One-stop cashier called police when a male student began pounding on the office window after it had already closed. The cashier reported that it was not a gentle knock, and so she locked the window. Police arrived and calmed the student, who was upset and crying because he had been removed from all of his classes even though his tuition was paid.

March 4: Microwaves from Helaman Halls were moved into the hall lounge, where someone destroyed them by running food in them for a considerable amount of time. When officers responded they found the ruined microwaves along with charred remains of a burrito.

Property Damage
Jan. 14: A woman was driving near the Crabtree building when she stopped at a light. A male using the crosswalk tapped her car with his hand and told her that she should not drive while talking on the phone. The driver saw this same man later and told him not to touch her vehicle. In response, he rubbed his hands on the front of her car.

Traffic Violation
Jan. 19: A man returned to his parked car and found another car parked with its bumper touching his. The man did not know what to do, so he called the police. Officers asked the man to move his car backward. No damage was done.

A Big One

2011-04-11T07:41:00.000-07:00

It's a big post, a big day, and a big birthday. My little brother turns 17 today! 17! Wow. To celebrate his birthday when we are in different states, I'm dedicating this post all to him! Happy birthday, Bud! Love you tons!

[Remember that one time we whipped each other with licorice and gave each other welts?]

Happy Birthday Austin!!

Not too shabby, eh?

2011-04-08T13:27:00.000-07:00

Is it April 8th? Yep. Is it snowing again today? You betcha. Am I sad today? Not at all. It's payday, I spanked my nursing pass off, and I turned in a final project (thanks to Kendle and Austin!), and I'm going to Divine Comedy tonight. Not too shabby.

Wait... it's spring?

2011-04-02T17:54:00.000-07:00

Did it snow on Monday? Yes it did. Did I buy myself two pairs of new flip flops that same day? Yes I did. I'm trying to force it to be spring.

Also, try not to pay attention to how glaringly white my legs are. They haven't seen the sun since October.

Hare Krishna

2011-03-28T16:56:00.000-07:00

Happy Festival of Colors everyone! It's widely celebrated around here. Ironic right? I live in Utah. hahaha. Anyway, we definitely went to the Festival of Colors again this year and it was better than last year! The chalk tastes disgusting, it's hard to breath [side note: has anyone seen the CSI: New York episode where the Native American tribal leader was killed, they did an autopsy, his lungs were all crazy colored, and they figured out he had been to a Festival of Colors? No? Well, that's what my lungs look like right now :)] and everyone around you is being crazy, but it is TONS of fun. It took a 30 minute shower and washing my hair three times to get it out [and even then, my scalp was still pink] but it was so worth it.

PS- I'm still getting chalk out of my ears every morning. :)

Back in P-town

2011-03-21T07:42:00.000-07:00

Last Sunday my roommate, Kate, and I decided to drive home for the weekend for Nicole's bridal shower, and boy oh boy I'm sure happy we did. It was an AWESOME weekend!

[Mom, Me, Nicole, Kendle, Adrian, Kate]

Kendle and Mom and Adrian (but mostly Kendle) put on an AMAZING bridal shower for Nicole. It was the cutest thing ever. Ever. But we kind of forgot to take pictures of the rest of the weekend. We went to the Baker's for corn beef and cabbage on St. Patrick's Day. We went to Eegee's and got an eegee and ranch fries [mmmmm....:)]. We played with the puppy and the Hayley. We watched a lot of basketball. We had some fan-freaking-tastic Mexican food at El Molinito. We enjoyed 80+ degree weather. And I had the best time ever with my family. I sure love them!

Now I'm back in Provo [for less than a month :)] and I'm back to wearing boots and a coat. It's supposed to snow today, but it's ok though because I just had the best weekend ever and I go home again in 30 days!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

2011-03-15T07:16:00.000-07:00

I love you, Dad, and want you to know,
I feel your love wherever I go.
Whenever I've problems, you're there to assist,
The ways you have helped me would make quite a list. Your wisdom and knowledge have shown me the way,
And I'm thankful for you as I live day by day.
I don't tell you enough how important you are,
In my universe you're a bright shining star. By Karl Fuchs

Bored

2011-03-10T10:46:00.000-08:00

I should be studying or doing something else productive, but I'm just bored. Bored and tired. So I decided to start a little countdown.

41 days or
984 hours or
59,040 minutes or
3,542,400 seconds

until I come home!!

By the way, we have blue skies and 54* right now!! (I know... it's 87* in Tucson today, but this is exciting for me, ok?)

Germaphobe?

2011-02-27T18:49:00.000-08:00

So, I had to do another at-home microbiology experiment, and this is seriously grossing me out! The experiment is called "Wash Your Hands!" Basically, I split the agar nutrient dish in two, labeling one side "before" and one "after". I pressed four unwashed fingers into the before side, then washed my hands like I normally do and pressed those four fingers into the "after" side. Here's a picture.

There is freaking MOLD growing on the after side!! How? How? How? SICK!

I also realized I forgot to blog the end product of my last one. So again, here is day two.

And here is day six. Don't judge. I'm sure all of your houses have these lovely little microbes as well. (For your information, we are much better about washing our little scrubby head more often.) This one happened to be staphylococci. It can be pretty dangerous but it also lives on our skin most of the time. You would think that after this class I would be more of a germaphobe, but I'm still good.

Anyway, happy Sunday!

Match-making

2011-02-21T13:03:00.000-08:00

BYU tries really hard to get people married. Nursing is all girls, accounting is all guys. Friday night we a match-making event for only nurses and accountants, but who can pass up free ice skating? So I went ice skating for the first time ever. Everyone was so shocked, but then I reminded them I grew up in Arizona. Anyway, I looked pretty retarded I'm sure, and I only fell once. It was quite the graceful fall... it totally happened in slow motion and Laura came down on top of me. At least it didn't hurt. Anyway, we all forgot cameras so we got one picture on a phone. So here I am, clinging to the wall. You can't really tell that I'm clinging but I really was. Also, I was holding Kate's hand in a "death grip" (or so she claims) but we thought it was a good idea to not hold hands for the picture. :)

I want to go home

2011-02-01T21:19:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, Adrian told me she felt my pain because she went out walking in the morning when the temperature was in the 30s. Tell me, do you feel my pain now? Tonight and tomorrow are going to have the lowest temperatures on record in the last three years. When I am supposed to leave for work tomorrow morning it is supposed to be 2* but feel like -14*. Ironically I just learned all about how if you go outside with temperatures lower than 10*, ice crystals will form in your cells and kill them. I want to go home.

Bollywood

2011-01-26T09:05:00.001-08:00

Probably my favorite moment on Outsourced so far.

Day 1

2011-01-21T16:53:00.000-08:00

Oh, it's a-growin'.

Microbes are EVERYWHERE!

2011-01-20T16:58:00.000-08:00

I had seven days to blog again and tell you all what I am doing. After this blog, I will officially be redeemed. Wahoo. I'm sure you're all just dying to know how my microbiology class is going. Well, one of our labs for the week is called "Microbes are EVERYWHERE". My assignment was to swab something in my apartment, streak it on an agar plate, and watch it grow. Nasty much? So here are my supplies... swab and nutrient agar petri dish.

Here is the culprit... a scrubby dish-washing thing. You can visibly see how nasty it is. Now I want you all to start imagining how gross it is on the microbial level...

Here is the process... kind of. (This might be a reenactment because I forgot to take pictures until after.)

And here is my petri dish. Can you see the streaks in it? That's where my microbes are going to grow.

Oh, and don't worry your pretty little heads too much. I'll update you every day on how gross it is looking.

b.b.

2011-01-15T16:13:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I told Mom about my plan for today. We (me and my roommates) decided a long time ago that we wanted to go to the Salt Lake Temple to do baptisms and today was the perfect day for it. Mom responding by saying, via text, "You better take a camera and take pictures and blog your trip to the slc temple. You need to redeem yourself to lose the title bad blogger. kelsey the b.b." While we were on our way back today I texted Mom and said, "We went and I took pictures to blog." Mom responded by saying, "Blog soon~~or u will still be b.b." Well we just got back about a half hour ago and I am blogging. I think I should win an award or something. haha

Laura reading. She never stops doing homework.

Kate chillin' with me in the middle seat.

I think I have been living in Utah too long. My skin is starting to glow in the dark.

Me, Hannah, and Kate

Tiff and Laura, and the navigation system.

Hannah only lasted so long.

The five of us outside the temple.

Close up. The temple is beautiful on the inside. It was awesome to go in.

And we hit up the North Visitor's Center to see the Christus.

There Mom. Did I redeem myself? :)

Why am I here again?

2011-01-03T22:38:00.000-08:00

It's late and I wanted to be in bed by 11 tonight. That didn't work, but I have to tell you how frustrated I am right now.

I realized that I had no food at about 9 o'clock tonight. We decided to run to the store really quickly. We get out to my car and it is covered in snow and ice- not a surprise but I forgot that I still didn't have an ice scraper. My friend comes with his industrial looking ice scraper and scrapes my whole car off. He's a nice guy. We finally make it to the store and get groceries quickly and drive on home. We pull in and there are no spots in the parking lot (which, by the way, is crazy covered in ice. Not fun.)

We park illegally for a second, take all our groceries in the house and I proceed to fall on my butt with bags of groceries. Again, not fun. We get back in the car and drive around looking for a spot to park. We drove around for a half hour, attempted to parallel park a couple times (I guess it's time to learn), and ultimately end up parking 5 blocks away.

This morning I was in sunny Arizona where there was no snow or ice on the ground. Why am I here again?

Christmas Commercial Winner

2010-12-22T17:37:00.000-08:00

Ever since I got home and I'm not in school, I have been on the hunt for the best Christmas commercial. I found it, and it's by good ol' Target. (I don't just sit around and watch TV all day or anything...)

Oh hey,

2010-12-16T21:29:00.000-08:00

I'll be home in 20 hours. :)

3 down, 3 to go

2010-12-11T12:59:00.000-08:00

Finals week is here. I'm sick. I'm tired. I'm grouchy. But at least I'm half way done now, right? (I just took my Pearl of Great Price final sitting in bed, in jammies. Life's not so bad I guess.)

It's pretty

2010-11-28T15:15:00.000-08:00

I'm learning to like the snow more, so I decided to go exploring and take pictures. I got about ten feet out the door and realized it was wa-hay too dang cold for that so all these pictures are right outside my apartment. Maybe next time...

I Hate Onions

2010-11-23T15:21:00.000-08:00

But i love what we're having for dinner tonight. It's a trade-off.

Now I Can

2010-11-14T21:10:00.000-08:00

I used to think I was lame because I could never see the hidden pictures in "Magic Eye" books. Well now I can. Can you get them all right?

I'm Going to be a Nurse

2010-10-30T11:36:00.000-07:00

I found out yesterday that I GOT INTO THE BYU NURSING PROGRAM!! I start next semester, so in three years from December, I will be a nurse!

Fulfilling my Civic Duties

2010-10-28T19:01:00.000-07:00

I love voting. I think it is such an important opportunity that so many people take for granted. Get out there and vote, people!

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

As Promised

2010-10-22T15:55:00.000-07:00

We got a new faucet today! You can turn it on the highest pressure and it won't even spray your shirt :)

(Please excuse the dirty dishes...)

Hello world, I'm Crafty

2010-10-21T17:02:00.000-07:00

Oh hey, I'm crafty now. These pictures can speak for themselves :)

Also, I made pumpkin sugar cookies. They were cute AND delicious :)

Welcome to my Home

2010-10-20T19:09:00.000-07:00

I have been living in Provo for 57 days now so I figured it was time to actually show you where I live.

I live in apartment #14.

This is our living room. We're still working on decorations. Although, at this point, I'm not sure it will ever happen.

This lovely little partition is a coat closet in the front and the pantry in the back. (And yes, two of my roommates are from Texas. Also, sorry about my stupid collage. I couldn't make it look any better than this.)

This is the kitchen. We have all the necessities except a garburator, a.k.a garbage disposal. We're getting a new faucet any day because ours in old and yucky and sprays your shirt every time you turn it on. I have also heard rumor that we're getting another fridge... :)

This is the part of the pantry. The shelf that has Western Family fruit loops is mine :)

Then you walk past the chastity line (where no boys are allowed) and on the left you see my bathroom and my Elvis :) Oh, and that's my bedroom door on the very right.

On the right is the vanity and the other bathroom at the end of the hall. Right here on the very right is my bathroom storage (see next picture).

The top two shelves are mine. I got the best ones :)

This is my room. My bed on the left, Tiff's on the right. It looks very similar to last year. I enjoy it.

This is my half of the room with my bed and desk. All pretty normal.

This the the closet. It's awfully tight. It doesn't look that tight but that's just because I hadn't done laundry in quite a while.

I took these pictures on the day we had cleaning checks. Nice, right? Well, now you know where I live. What do y'all think?

p.b.

2010-10-13T08:18:00.000-07:00

I really am going to blog something substantial, you know, something that's actually going on in my life, but I have one more test tonight. Until that is over, I will leave you with some police beats :)

Oct. 5: A person has been seen in the Widstoe lab leaving suspicious notes on green tape on the lab counter. The notes have said things like "super nice," "nice," and "good job." The man has entered the lab and left these suspicious notes several nights in a row. Officers suspect he might be the boyfriend of one of the lab workers.

Oct. 7: In lot 48, a black Toyota was parked against a hill and the windows were fogged up. When the officer approached, he discovered a male and female in the car. After running the plates on the car, the officer noticed the owner of the car is banned from UVU's campus for a sex offense. The officer warned the young woman that her companion was dangerous. The woman assured him that she was fine and the officer left.

Oct. 7: The southwest gate on West Campus Drive was damaged when a car drove through it.

Oct. 5: Two male students were arguing over dating. One was having a difficult time getting dates and was telling the other student about it. The second student joked that he didn't have a difficult time getting dates and he could date the other student's mother. The first student took offense and slammed the second student against a wall and brandished a knife. Upon arrival, the police arrested the first student for aggravated assault. However, the second student decided to not press charges, so the first student was released.

This weeks were really good. I laughed out loud, to myself, for quite a while. :)

to all of you arizonans...

2010-10-06T18:57:00.001-07:00

i know it's unseasonably warm down there (105* i hear...). it's 57* here right now. suckas.

i hope you're all not sick of these...

2010-10-01T09:13:00.000-07:00

because I'm not. I'm happy when i wake up on Wednesdays because i know it's Police Beat day. Enjoy.

Sept. 17: Custodial staff reported a spill of about 15 gallons of water mixed with a white powdery substance in a pool filter room in the Richards Building. The powder was sodium hypochlorite, a chemical used in pool filtration systems. After testing several puddles of the spill, one was found to have a pH level of 5 and was producing a small amount of chlorine gas. The gas was only slightly toxic and no injuries resulted.

Sept. 7: Campus Police received a call at 7 a.m. saying a bat was flying around in the Wilkinson Center. An officer was dispatched, who then opened a door, and the bat flew out.

Sept. 8: Worried students at Helaman Halls phoned police after they smelled burning rubber. When they arrived at the scene, the officers discovered that it was auxiliary services using a grinder.

things i learned last night...

2010-09-22T08:54:00.000-07:00

1. cadavers are scary.
2. it freaks me out when i can see their eyelashes.
3. they stink.
4. there is so much more going on in the body than i ever imagined.
5. cadavers are fascinating.

the devil's shoes

2010-09-17T12:42:00.000-07:00

anybody remember this post from kendle's blog? well, apparently it happens to everyone eventually. somehow i ended up with kendle's really cute keds in my shoe bin. i decided last thursday that i might as well wear them if i have them. WORST DECISION I EVER MADE.

i started walking to school and when i was approximately 10 feet from my apartment, i knew it was going to be a bad day. i went from class to work and as i was walking back to class, i called kendle. the conversation went something like this...

kels: "hey, i accidentally ended up with a pair of your shoes."
ken: "dang. which ones?"
kels: "your tan keds."
ken: "oh. you can keep those. they hurt my feet."
kels: "oh really? cause i think my feet are bleeding." (they were)

that was over a week ago and i still limp in certain shoes. *sigh* a little pain for beauty's sake, eh?

i am alive and well

2010-09-15T19:05:00.000-07:00

believe it or not, i am alive up here at BYU. it's amazing how quickly time flies when you're working part-time and going to school full-time. and it doesn't help that i haven't had a computer to be able to blog about my experiences. anyway, i have some stories to share, but i also have about 30,000 pages of each textbook to read so for tonight i will just share the funniest video on youtube right now. enjoy.

return to provo

2010-08-26T19:39:00.000-07:00

mom and i drove up to utah on tuesday. jason and laurel very graciously let us crash in their basement after and incredibly long day of driving. (thanks a ton!) wednesday i moved into my apartment, got all my paperwork done for my job, did a bit a shopping (i.e. bought mockingjay. awesome.) then went to paula's house to stay for a few nights (thank you paula!) today we did more shopping, moved more stuff in, bought my books, etc. along with our many adventures, today was my first time parallel parking EVER. (please don't make fun. i was very proud.) i kept getting excited and said i parallel parked and mom would say "no, you just pulled up to the curb." well this time was for real. there are cars in the front and cars in the back. i'm impressed with myself even if i am much farther from the curb than most people. :)

a day of jobs

2010-08-20T09:39:00.000-07:00

yesterday started out as any other- dad at work, kendle at work, austin at school, mom and i tanning in the pool. but there was so much more about yesterday that made it such a great day. first, dad started his new job yesterday! yay! he said he had a great day and thought every one was really nice. he's really excited to start working hard for this new bank. thanks dad for all you do for our family :)

second, kendle had an interview for a new job yesterday. [i'll let her tell y'all about it, but let's just say it went "okay" ;)]

and last, i went straight from the pool to pick up austin from school. we headed off to the storage unit to pick up stuff i'll be needing for school. well as we walk in the door, mom is on the phone talking to our great friend paula. turns out, she needs a new secretary-type-person starting asap for the rmyl department [if that sounds familiar, it's because this is the exact same job kendle had when she was at byu]. anyway, i'm super excited for this! thanks a ton paula :)

quite the eventful day, wouldn't you say?

to my sisters

2010-08-03T15:18:00.000-07:00

you two are my best friends! i love you both. happy birthdays :)

giggling

2010-07-22T20:38:00.000-07:00

first, i just have to say that i love old spice commercials. they make me giggle.

second, i love this new BYU library commercial. it makes me giggle more.

ps- this guy (stephen) is a humor u guy. freaking funny. i had a little run in with him at a CES devotional. i was sitting right behind his girlfriend and he kept trying to put his arm around her. has anyone sat in the marriot center for an extened period of time? if so, you'll know it isn't exactly roomy. needless to say, his arm was basically on my leg all night long. it was a bit uncomfortable. this commercial redeemed him for me :)

HGTV and my future

2010-07-19T21:59:00.000-07:00

i got a job- happy, i know. i nanny a 6-month old little girl and i know what you're thinking... "a 6-month old? can she even roll over?" she can, but that is all. she's really happy rolling around on the ground or bouncing in her... bouncy thing. and eating. holy crap, if you could all see all she eats you would be amazed too. i stop counting the ounces of formula she drinks each day at 36. she's one cute little chunk. but i digress... i spend my days watching HGTV while she's napping (which is typically 5 out of the 8 hours I am there). needless to say, i know exactly how i want to decorate my house when i grow up. and something else is happening to me. each time i walk into bed, bath, & beyond, i want one of those fancy little guns that lets me run around the store recording everything i want. i guess i'm getting old.

i needed a laugh

2010-07-03T21:09:00.000-07:00

Utah moves to the Pac-10! from Semper Ute on Vimeo.

overwhelming craftiness

2010-06-24T20:09:00.000-07:00

unlike kendle, i'm not used to having craftiness racing through my blood every day. mine comes in spurts (if it comes at all). this summer has been one of those spurts. mom, kendle and i started baby quilts very soon after i got home. it took a while, because my crafty tendencies come and go, but it's finally done! (mine is the only one done, i might add.)

also we've been having fun making hair bows/flowers. and they are awfully cute, huh? :)

pain

2010-06-19T15:11:00.000-07:00

i have come to the conclusion that my first experience with sunburns so painful that you literally cannot sleep/walk/move at all was buried so far into my mind that i could never remember it. and yet the pain has resurfaced. i may have been tanning yesterday and i may have forgotten to put sunscreen on my legs. at first, there was lots of laughter at the expense of my poor legs but i think when people realized how much freaking pain i was in, it wasn't quite so funny.

pictures are not coming. i'll spare you all the nightmares.

a long absence

2010-06-05T21:00:00.000-07:00

I haven't blogged in many moons and I figured it was just about time. We took a much-needed (for my parents) vacation. My life right now is pretty much a vacation. No exaggerations. Anyway, we took off Thursday of Memorial Day weekend for the cabin. It started out as a great trip. And then it struck. This nasty, death-inducing flu bug hit Nicole first, then Adrian, then some cousins, then Kendle and me, then more cousins and Dad to wrap it all up. I'm not even sure what it was but I sure I was dying by the end. We did get one picture of the vacation though…

Then this week Kendle and I volunteered at Cub Scout Camp doing the crafts with 300 eight to ten-year-old boys. I'll just say it was exhausting but tons of fun. (Pictures to come.) And today we chilled in the pool all day long. It was great and quite well documented, but I think Kendle has already laid claim to blogging most of those pictures, so I will give you one sneak peak.

(I promise, we do get in the pool. We don't just sit in the lagoon under the sunbrella all day...)

its five o'clock in the morning

2010-05-15T05:02:00.000-07:00

i don't know what is going on with me. kendle and i had a long day so we all went to bed fairly early. [and when i say fairly early, i mean midnightish.] so at like 3am i woke up because i had to pee. i hate peeing in the middle of the night. then i was having scary dreams [i don't remember them specifically. sorry.] now my legs are going crazy and i can't lay still. self-diagnosed restless leg syndrome blows.

psychic time?

2010-05-09T09:52:00.000-07:00

since i have been home for over two weeks, i think it's time to blog again. kendle just does such a wicked good job of blogging everything we do, i feel like y'all will just be getting repeats. so basically if you want to know what's happening check out kendle's blog. i'm going to blog about my dream last night.

so here's what happened. [this part is real. background information...] at nicole's birthday party, we were playing the game of things, a poopin' funny game. and one of the things that we had to answer was "name something that you would like to see a psychic about" or something to that effect. so kendle wrote "if there are spirits around me" which was my personal favorite because i have always wondered that as well. i put "what my dreams mean" because i have some crazy dreams that are always strangely realistic. we preceded to have a conversation about how you can just use online dream interpreters which then led me to explain how one of my dreams from months ago was interpreted incorrectly. i had this dream that i was out in the backyard under austin's tree house when this woman came running into the backyard talking about how this man was chasing her and trying to kill her. we were trying to hide behind the tree (which obviously wasn't very effective because it was a mesquite tree and the trunk is like 6 inches thick). so the man came through our house and was standing in the back door when he started shooting at us. he hit the woman in the arm, and suddenly i remembered that my dad kept a gun in austin's "secret" box in the tree house. (not really. it's empty.) so i climbed the tree and got the gun and i shot the man. and that was the end of the dream. and now i am done with background information. sorry it's long.

so i looked it up online and it said shooting someone in a dream is a sign of uncontrollable rage, which i don't think is very accurate. so then i'm assuming because we talked about it and i have been think about it, it made me dream about it again. i have never had a dream continuation, but here's what happened....

i climbed down from the tree and tried to stop the bleeding from in the woman's arm. i called 911 and then walked stealthily to the man who i shot. i got him in the stomach so he was bleeding pretty badly. all of a sudden, i dropped to my knees and started doing cpr [because i am cpr certified, you know ;)] i kept going for like 10 minutes until the police and paramedics arrived because i didn't want him to be dead. i didn't want to have just killed a man. but he was gone. and i woke up crying.

it was bizarro. so i'm leaving it up to you faithful blog readers [all three of you ;)]. should i just keep using dreaminterpretations.com or is it really time for a pyschic?

winding down

2010-04-19T18:17:00.000-07:00

as my freshman year of college comes to an end, i would like to reflect on some of the things i'm going to miss most about byu.

*my friends. thank goodness for skype.
*walking around on sundays and hearing people sing (it's grown on me, ok?)
*dr. wood. he's tight.
*all the funny things you can only find at byu. i.e. byu cops, police beat, playing the "20 bucks says he's married" game, and this...

yes, as we were walking home from humor u one night, we stumbled upon this little beauty. it says, "yellow nano iPod left here. go to the wilk info desk to retrieve. Belongs to 'nat'." only at BYU, huh?

hip hip hooray

2010-04-17T00:13:00.000-07:00

i think i have been awake for too long and i have been studying organic and bio chem too much. otherwise this video wouldn't be so funny... i'm a little embarrassed.

oh my...

2010-04-13T19:02:00.000-07:00

a bunch of girls from my hall and i are renting a storage unit all together for the summer. when i called today to reserve the unit, i was also looking at their website and this is what i found.

i admit, their facilities are very nice (although whenever i see one i still think of the CSI where the doctor performed certain surgeries in a storage unit. anyone remember that epsiode? bleh.) but unless i have forgotten home entirely, i don't think this bathroom is "just like home". i mean, i have been away from home for almost 4 months now but i'm hoping it won't be like that. and what the heck is "women friendly"?

happy birthday to my favorite brother!!!

2010-04-11T12:59:00.000-07:00

my favorite brother turns 16 today!!! i wish i could be there with you, bud, but i come next week!!! have a great day!!

did it pay off?

2010-04-09T13:24:00.000-07:00

a couple weekends ago i had the lamest friday night of my life. i stayed home and studied for my o-chem test the next day. i drew and redrew glycolysis and the citric acid cycle and the electron transport chain so many times my brain hurt. i studied my life away. but did it pay off, you ask. you better believe it! i got a 97% on the test. gosh, i'm good :)

happy easter!

2010-04-03T15:25:00.000-07:00

i'm having a great weekend here with kendle and nicole and zac and i'll definitely blog about it all later, but for today i'm just wishing you all a happy easter and playing my favorite mormon message from my favorite apostle :)

byu makes me smile

2010-03-30T15:26:00.000-07:00

the fact that we have a free seasonal bridal guide in the wilk... funny. the fact that they are apparently advertising for weddings in the spirit world too... hilarious.

festival of colors

2010-03-29T09:18:00.000-07:00

saturday was a dang busy day. i woke up early (well, before 9am) and finished studying for my last o chem midterm. then i walked up to campus and took a two hour test, and right as i was walking back, a bunch of my friends were leaving to go to festival of colors. i ran inside, changed my clothes and we were on our way to spanish fork, utah. (just a quick story... i always get spanish fork and american fork mixed up. i know one is south and one is north of provo but i never can remember. on our trip down, we came up with a way to remember. spanish fork is closer to mexico! anyway, we thought it was clever...)

so it took forever to get there. traffic was bad and we had to park a million miles away. but we got there and it was tons of fun! as soon as you start inhaling the stuff, it's not so fun... (i may have had purple boogers too...)

[this is part of my group. a bunch of us got separated for a while]

then we drove back to provo, took the fastest showers possible (while still getting somewhat clean). when all of the chalk was coming off, the showers smelled so bad. i hadn't realized we smelled like that. gross. then we headed out to cedar hills for a hall party at my ra's house. we made s'mores and it was tons of fun. then we got back and i remembered i had to prepare a lesson for the next day... whoops. i got it done and was completely exhausted by midnight when i went to bed.

but it was all worth it :)

chemistry

2010-03-26T16:36:00.000-07:00

so yesterday my chem ta played this video at the end of his review which is right before class. i must admit, i have always been fascinated with rube goldberg machines and apparently my professor has also. he came in right at the beginning and looked like he was just in heaven watching this video. i hope you like it. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

ps- these are the same guys who did the treadmill music video, mom.

oh happy day

2010-03-25T15:59:00.000-07:00

today i turned in my last two papers of my freshman year. boo ya!

no laughing

2010-03-21T19:08:00.000-07:00

let me just start by saying i know i have ugly toenails. (kendle and adrian and possibly mom, you don't need to comment about that.) this story is about something else but it happens to include my ugly toenails. so here goes.

once upon a time i ran the rex lee run. my shoes were just a tiny bit too small and for some reason, i chose to wear thick socks, making the shoes even smaller. after the race i took a shower and got ready for the day and noticed the tip of my toe was a little sore and red. no big deal, i thought. well, later that day, i noticed something strange. a blister had formed on the tip of my toe where no one else could even get a blister but since my toenail is so very odd (and non-existent), i could and i did.

[it got weirder looking than this... sorry you can barely see it.]

i let it heal and everything was going smashingly. then saturday (yesterday) i was getting ready and accidentally knocked over my tiny strawberry plant pot and it landed directly on my toe. [side note: sorry mom and kendle. i couldn't make them grow. :(] so now, i have blister remains and a new lovely blood blister, all on a place where everyone else would have a nail, but i just have a very sensitive toe tip apparently.

[lovely, eh?]

gag

2010-03-19T10:24:00.001-07:00

so in my BOM class, there is this one guy that wears cargo shorts and a trench coat everyday. whatev. each to his own, you know? well, every single tuesday and thursday (and i'm assuming other days of the week as well), his cargo pocket is full of tissues, used and to-be-used. and every single tuesday and thursday, in the middle of BOM, he feels the need to blow his nose- the real snotty, runny nose-blowing- at least once during class, but sometimes even more, heaven forbid. when it happens, i crinkle my nose and try not to gag in my mouth a little.

oh but yesterday... yesterday was terrible. at the same exact time that he was blowing his snotty nose, a girl on the other side of me suddenly felt like she needed to blow her boogery nose. and then i threw up in my mouth a little. no lie.

holy moly

2010-03-16T22:10:00.001-07:00

chuck and the office are the only two shows i have stayed up with. but yes, now i'm "doing better things with my life"... whatev. haha but seriously, have y'all seen the preview for next week?!

happy birthday dad!!

2010-03-15T09:14:00.000-07:00

i hope you have a great day! wish i could be there with you!

ps- sorry pretty much all the pictures are from vacation. that's all i have. haha

rex lee

2010-03-14T22:08:00.000-07:00

"rex lee run: run for the cure with brigham young university's cancer awareness group". this saturday i ran my first 5k! it was tons of fun and luckily, it started raining right after we finished :)

she can't run in those little high heels

2010-03-10T20:14:00.000-08:00

i'm not entirely sure why this is so funny, but i have watched this clip like ten times and i'm still laughing. hope y'all enjoy :)

riddle me this

2010-03-07T14:58:00.001-08:00

how long does it take a giraffe to throw up?

[cha cha is failing. it didn't know the answer either. cha cha said, "stop wasting time with stupid questions." the person working today was apparently a little bitter...]

the cyber galaxy

2010-02-27T16:56:00.000-08:00

so, today i was on facebook for a while creeping on people... naturally. wanna know what i found? me. i found like ten pictures of me at efy way back when. i'm not tagged in these pictures and i had no idea there were a lot of pictures of me floating around the cyber galaxy. a little creepy, even for me.

update

2010-02-20T15:45:00.001-08:00

i have died.

yeppa

2010-02-18T20:39:00.000-08:00

i'm taking my sixth test in a week on saturday. it's been a grand week.

ps- i only have five classes. how that works out, i'm not really sure.

too late to apologize

2010-02-11T20:30:00.001-08:00

american heritage might just be getting to me, but this video is roll-on-the-floor laughing quality. or maybe i'm a major dork...

ps- sorry about the video. it's as small as it goes.

don't

2010-02-10T14:14:00.000-08:00

so, here's the thing. i'm not opposed to sleeping in weird places on campus. i do it every tuesday and thursday from 9am to 10am in the jkb on those nice little couch things. but, some one needs to draw a line on the weirdness. basically, my rule is don't sleep like this...

or like this...

because if you do, we might take funny pictures with you. and make fun of you endlessly. poor guy.

ps- this is my 100th post :)

i've done some good in the world

2010-01-31T13:07:00.000-08:00

before they met me, the girls in my hall didn't know humor, love, wit, or charm. i have changed their lives, and i'm not saying this to brag. this weekend, i introduced to them...

probably one of the best movies ever made. [and we may or may have not walked around campus this weekend singing "walk like a man"... just putting in out there :)] if you haven't seen it, watch it. it will change your life. no joke.

it's been a while

2010-01-20T14:01:00.000-08:00

today is a great day. not like yesterday, that was a really great day. so yesterday morning, i got up at 7(ish) and got ready for class. i even had time to make myself a bagel with cream cheese, making the morning better than usual. laura, tiffany and i left the dorm to make it to our 8am class in the Marb (pretty much the farthest building on campus from us). so we're walking and we're hearing noise, way too much noise for 7:45am. suddenly, we turn the corner to walk through the tunnel and up the hill and there is a crowd of people cheering us on to our 8am class. they had the rocky music playing and everything. so, naturally, i run down the line, giving everyone high-fives. once we're past the crowd (with the music still blaring) we start running up the hill like rocky. it was beautiful. i wish this happened every day.

this morning did not start out so well. i woke up late, but still took time to shower because that way i could come back and nap after my 8am class, before my 11am class. i didn't have time to make myself anything for breakfast, and when we walked outside, there was no crowd to make me feel better about how early it was and it was definitely snowing- making it a not-so-great morning.

but, the heavens smiled on me and gave me something today to cheer me up.... the police beat. enjoy :)

jan. 11: four males were caught throwing water out of budge hall onto the people below. after being caught, they apologized and no charges were made.

jan. 12: the driver of a white pick-up truck reportedly whipped into a handicap stall, parked and ran to class. officers confirmed that the running person indeed had a handicap permit.

jan. 13: a male student, 26, was caught stealing a $1.80 drink from the twilight zone [it's the little store in the Wilk where you can buy food and what-not]. when questioned, he said he was in a hurry and forgot to pay. he was arrested, cited then let go with a 72-hour suspension from school.

numero uno

2010-01-18T14:35:00.000-08:00

happy 1st birthday, my hayley bug! i love you! you're my favorite niece ;)

funny, eh?

2010-01-13T19:24:00.000-08:00

there are certain things i missed about being at school. don't get me wrong, home was great. i would rather be there right now. [it's supposed to snow on monday and tuesday, and it was supposed to snow today, but thank the heavens they were wrong.] but let me show you what jewels you can find on the byu campus. they just make life happy. :)

yes. it is exactly what you are thinking it is... a side-splitting card game of strategy and fun. but just wait! it gets better! the best part of the whole game is the synopsis on the back...

"Welcome to the Happy Valley 314th Ward! Does this sound familiar? We have six nursery classes, two independently running Primaries, and two elders quorums. We're packed like sardines into our ward building and it's time to Split the Ward! In the fun, action-packed game, you and your friends and family have been called to help rearrange a cast of zany characters into new leadership positions as quickly as possible. The first person to organize three completed presidencies wins! The action cards and wild cards will keep things interesting, and you'll be surprised at how many of the "peculiar people" in our ward family remind you of someone in your own ward! Find out how much fun it is to Split the Ward!"

bahaha!!

it's worth the wait the whole year through

2009-12-25T16:20:00.000-08:00

these videos were just too funny to wait! santa was very good to us this year, but i think hayley loved her pony the best. :)

[front view]

[back view]

more pictures to come. hope you all had a very merry christmas :)

once upon a time...

2009-12-19T15:17:00.000-08:00

i came home from my first semester of college and was helping kendle make thousands of cookies for a reception for some weirdos. nicole was over helping and she was telling me about this one lady who came into the hospital who looked like she was being beaten. her sentence went something like this... "i called protective services because it looked like she had been beaten." i responded by saying, "oh good." naturally i was referring to the first half of the sentence. well, kendle laughed at me for saying it [yes, i know how it sounded]. i turned around to spit my tongue out at kendle, and come to find out, she was holding a hot cookie sheet right about at my ear level behind me, moving cookies from the sheet to the cooling racks. here is the result...

yes. i was burnt in my ear with a cookie sheet. how many people in the world can say that?! :)

and yes. it looks like it's oozing, but that is just the burn gel, cross my heart!

may he rest in peace

2009-12-12T17:29:00.000-08:00

when we walked by kate's car to go to dinner, this is what we found...

farewell, willis. king of the snow people. your body will decay... but your spirit lingers on and your human friends find solace in the loss they have sustained.

willis

2009-12-12T12:52:00.000-08:00

i stayed outside while it was snowing of my own free will to play in it. true growth, i know. :)

[this is willis, our new friend.]